Deal signed on downloading piracy

BBC

November 23rd, 2005

The BBC reports that the movie industry and the man behind BitTorrent have signed a deal they hope will reduce the number of pirated films shared on the downloading network. The deal only covers searches via the BitTorrent site MPAA boss Dan Glickman (l) and Bram Cohen announce the deal. The movie industry and the man behind BitTorrent have signed a deal they hope will reduce the number of pirated films shared on the downloading network. The deal covers films found via the bittorrent.com website run by Bram Cohen – creator of the download system. It means bittorrent.com must remove any links to pirated films made by seven Hollywood movie studios.